Important Collectors’ Wristwatches, P...

New York - The Fuller Building, Dec 07, 2006

LOT 238

"Jubilé" Vacheron & Constantin, Genève, "Jubilé", No. 520836, case No. 356168, Ref. 4600. Made in the 1950s. Very fine and rare, thin, 18K yellow gold gentleman's wristwatch.

C. Three-body, solid, polished and brushed, sloped bezel, concave lugs. D. Matte silver with applied yellow gold faceted baton indexes, subsidiary seconds dial. Yellow gold "baton" hands. M. Cal. P 453/3B, rhodium-plated, "fausses côtes" decoration, 18 jewels, straight-line lever escapement, monometallic balance adjusted to heat, cold, isochronism and 5 positions, shock absorber, blued steel Breguet balance spring, ?swan-neck? micrometer regulator. Dial, case and movement signed. Diam. 36 mm. thickness 8 mm.